May 18, 2023
QUOTE
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
--Tina Fey
BIRTHDAYS
1822 – Mathew Brady, Photographer and journalist
1897 – Frank Capra, Director, producer, and screenwriter
1912 – Perry Como, Singer and television host
1928 – Pernell Roberts, Actor
1952 – Jeana Yeager, American pilot
1970 – Tina Fey, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1096 – Minna of Worms, Jewish martyr killed during the Worms massacre
1808 – Elijah Craig, Minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey
1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, Actress
1980 – David A. Johnston, Volcanologist and geologist
2020 – Ken Osmond, American actor and police officer (Eddie Haskall)
IN ON THIS DAY
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1863 – The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1969 – Apollo 10 is launched.
1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of over 320 mph,